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In Advancing SOF Cultural Engagement: The Malinowski Model for
a Qualitative Approach, Robert Greene Sands and Darby Arake-
lian propose a special operations relevant model for engaging
populations, illuminating their worldviews and values, appreciat
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ing their interests, and translating signicant social, cultural, and
political information into operational analysis. Their objectives
are to introduce the core concepts, the base vocabulary, and the
foundational skills in anthropology and sociology necessary for
improving the human aspects core competency. While Greene
Sands and Arakelian do not expect SOF to become anthropolo-
gists, they assert that Malinowski’s population-centric research
methods are desperately needed to make sense of contemporary
human aspects of military operations.
ISBN 978-1-941715-31-4
Advancing SOF Cultural Engagement:
The Malinowski Model for
a Qualitative Approach
Robert R. Greene Sands and Darby Arakelian
JSOU Report 18-2
JSOU Report 18-2 Advancing SOF Cultural Engagement: The Malinowski Model Sands and Arakelian
Bronislaw Malinowski, professor of anthropology, pictured in .
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